Re:What happens if you stick your head in a particle acceler...
by tgsovlerkhgsel on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:50AM
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How do you get the particle out of a vacuum area into a non-vacuum area?
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Re:What happens if you stick your head in a particle acceler...
by azalemeth on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:35AM
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Very thin, very expensive, very low atomic mass number beryllium windows.
Re:What happens if you stick your head in a particle acceler...
by changoplatanero on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:16AM
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I'm not an expert but I believe that the particles are traveling so fast and with so much energy that they just blast through the walls of the vacuum chamber
Re:What happens if you stick your head in a particle acceler...
by AndrewOMartin on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:45AM
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There's probably a material which photons and other sub atomic particles can pass through but the molecules in the air can't.
Re:What happens if you stick your head in a particle acceler...
by the8472 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @08:15AM
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For some applications a plasma window can be used.
Re:What happens if you stick your head in a particle acceler...
by jasonwatkinspdx on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:11AM
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Probably just a very small hole and beefing up the vacuum equipment near it. From what I recall the LHC beam is on the scale of a couple micrometres.
Re:What happens if you stick your head in a particle acceler...
by zaarn on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:00AM
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No you just fire it through the wall of the vacuum chamber. When you're going >99% the speed of light a couple inches of metal don't matter that much anymore.
Re:What happens if you stick your head in a particle acceler...
by tibyat on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:08AM
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Why? Just do it all under vacuum.
But in cases where you must (cost/practicality limitations, dealing with liquids, etc), this is done by passing through a thin film of material that has a small cross section of interaction with the particles, typically "low Z" (low atomic number) elements like Beryllium (its rigidity makes withstanding 1 atm pressure difference easy), or simple hydrocarbon plastics like polyethylene/polypropylene.
But this depends on what particles you're talking about.